hello everyone and happy thanksgiving!

i wanted to let you all know i had this great poem planned to post, but i got the flu yesterday, and if i stand or sit for too long i feel dizzy and have tummy problems. i am not even going to mom’s for dinner today. thankfully we were planning on two thanksgiving dinners - i had better be well by saturday!!!

i’d appreciate prayers and i love you all. keep in mind the real meaning of thanksgiving. we are so blessed, aren’t we? if i can say that feeling like i do, then you know it’s true.

love and God bless,

hello! long time, no post!
i have been working like a maniac to get the faithfulfamily site up. and GREAT NEWS!! IT’S UP!!!!! please show me you love me by visiting!! FaithfulFamily.net. it’s not completely perfect, but it’s good enough for now. we can always use those articles, ladies, so i’m leaving that post up. i am SOOOOOOOO happy with it!!!! unfortunately, the guestbook still isn’t up, but i’m working out the bugs!!!! you have no idea how happy i am and relieved it’s practically done. i am very proud of jerry because most of the scripting was written by his own hands! what a wonderful hubby i have.

as for the infertility thing, still no news. doing our job every other night and we’ll see soon if that little egg decided to mature on its own! please keep praying for us.

well i’m going to go visit some folks before i work on faithfulfamily a bit more.

God bless!

hello, all!

it was nice that jerry and mom both got to go to the appointment with me. extra support is always good!

i just got back and i don’t know quite what to feel because i expected to be totally crushed or totally happy. instead, she told me the one egg that was developing better was pretty large, but not as large as it should have been, so she couldn’t do the injection. she DID say that there is a chance i could still get pregnant on my own, but i just can’t have the injection.
i also found out more details. because of the pcos, my eggs are not developing normally. they are staying small and not enlarging and developing as they should. the clomid is supposed to help them to develop normally, then the injection helps the eggs be ready for implantation.
please continue to pray for us. i’m feeling pretty bummed and still a little hopeful with the small chance of conceiving this month.

if i DON’T conceive this month, when i start my period i’ll be put on clomid again for the week, but they are increasing the dosage of it, so that means there’s more of a chance for multiples - oh my! but whatever we’ll be happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i also went to burlington’s coat factory and went to the baby depot there. ohhhh it was fun. i love it when jerry looks at baby stuff with me. we picked out a cabinet/changing table area that we want. and we also picked out the crib bedding for the boy and the girl. no one understands why we want to know the sex when we finally get pregnant, but that’s one of the reasons. for the boy, the main color will be baby mint green and for the girl the main color will be baby lavendar. we found ADORABLE stuff i recommend the baby depot to anybody!

anyway, just planning for the future here!

God bless you and thanks for your prayers!

love you and God bless,

oops…today’s tuesday isn’t it?

1. Long or short hair? i like short hair on guys, and like the way my hair looks when it’s long, but it’s easier to take care of shoulder-length.

2. Microwave or conventional oven? depends on what i’m cooking! i usually do veggies and lunches in microwave, but dinner’s in oven.

3. Plain or Peanut M&M’s? PLAIN! i hate peanut, but i like peanuts. i also like peanutbutter m and ms. i know, i’m strange.

4. “101 Dalmations”…animated or live-action version? i like them both.

5. Drink out of bottle/can or pour into a glass? bottles are nice to carry, but glasses are cheaper. if it’s pop i prefer it in a can or small bottle rather than a liter.

6. Sunlight or moonlight? both!

7. Kermit the Frog or Miss Piggy? KERMIT! miss piggy is such a bully!

8. Glasses or contact lenses (or neither)? i like the way i look in contacts but they hurt my eyes too much so i can only wear glasses. i like jerry either way!

9. Action movies or chick flicks? depends on my mood, but normally chick flicks.

10. Toilet seat…up or down ? the seat DOWN the lid UP.

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i also forgot, if you have articles for me to post, please send it to me in .txt file or html form.
thanks!

hi everyone! say a quick prayer because jerry has lost his wallet. it’s not just a lost around the house kind of thing - it’s serious.
anyways, yes i’m still alive! lol. the meds have calmed down and seem to be leaving my system alone now. the last day for taking them was friday, but they continued doing their job after that! i was feeling a bit better yesterday, but now i feel almost as good as new. thank the Lord, for jerry’s sake - the poor man didn’t know what to do with me and my mood swings.
well, tomorrow is the big day! i’ll go in and get an ultrasound to see how my eggies are doing. please pray with me that they will be mature and ready so i can get the injection and get preggo!!!! i know i’m putting a lot of faith into this, but i can’t really help it. i realize it’s not a 100% thing, but i feel i should treat it as if it WILL happen, ya know? sigh - i’m pitiful. just keep praying for me. it’s just really hard when your lifelong dream seems to be stuck halfway.
hey! praise the Lord!!!! jerry just called and he found his wallet! it was outside his work! it must have fallen out of his pocket while he got out of his car. thankfully there was nothing missing! thanks, God!!!!!
i wanted to thank everyone who offered to write (or submit already written) articles for my faithfulfamily site! i want to encourage you who didn’t offer that the request still stands - even after the site is up and running fully, i’ll still want new content all the time.
well i’m on to do some long deserved blog hopping! i’m going to see EVERYONE!!!
love you all and God bless you!
jenn

i’m sorry i’ve been away so long. i’m really still not feeling well. this med is wreaking havoc on my body! i feel sick to my stomach, have a huge headache and my mood swings are totally out of control!!!!!

also i have been working on one of my other sites, FaithfulFamily.net. we are redoing the design and everything and i’m working on tons of new content that is greatly needed!! if you happen to take a peek at it, please don’t judge it on its current look - i know it looks bad. it will look totally different hopefully in the next two weeks. staying on that same subject, i am asking you all, as lovely Christian mamas, for articles. i have a bunch of ideas and i just want each of you (if you want, of course) to write an article for me. i have several themes that you can write on, and if you want to write on more than one that would be fabulous!!!! i would of course give you copyright credit and link to your personal website if you would like.
here are the themes, all Christian in theme but you don’t have to talk about God if you don’t want:
infertility;
adoption;
breastfeeding;
wanting to breastfeed but being unable to;
co-sleeping or not co-sleeping;
stay at home parenting;
homeschooling;
discipline, including spanking and spanking alternatives (keep in mind the site believes spanking is a godly choice);
cloth diapering or not cloth diapering;
family finances;
Christian marriages;
raising godly children;
raising teens;
raising a son (the bond between mother and son);
raising a daughter (the bond between mother and daughter);
about your husband as your child’s father;

i hope you will help me out! if you want to write something, just let me know. if you already have something written and wouldn’t mind me posting it, please send it to me. use my contact form to let me know and i will email you back.

have a great day - please continue to pray for me and conceiving

God bless you,

here is an email i sent out to friends, just so you all know what’s going on. i’m still not in a super-talkative mood, but i’m hopeful

i wanted to let everyone know how we’re doing on our infertility journey.

AF arrived saturday so i began using the clomid yesterday. i’m taking that until friday. then on the 20th i’m going to get an ultrasound that will check egg development. if the eggs are mature i will be given hCG (novarel) by injection to induce ovulation.

then 16 days after the injection i will be given a pregnancy test.

i just wanted to let everyone know that we really need prayer in the next few weeks about this. i am feeling strange from the drug - it’s making my tummy feel strange - all bubbly or something. so hopefully that means it’s working!

i am HOPEFUL that the first month will be successful, but i’m not counting on it. sometimes it takes a few months for it to work. but i’m confident the Lord will bless us with a child soon. i know your prayers will only strengthen my faith.

God bless and have a great week.

oh, wow! i just got this in my mailbox:

The Butterfly

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared.

He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress.

It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no
further. So the man decided to help the butterfly.

He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.

The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small,
shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any
moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body,
which would contract in time.

Neither happened!

In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a
swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.

What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the
restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get
through the tiny opening were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it
achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If God allowed
us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We
would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly!

I asked for Strength . . .
And God gave me Difficulties to make me strong.

I asked for Wisdom . . .
And God gave me problems to solve.

I asked for Prosperity . . .
And God gave me Brain and Brawn to work.

I asked for Courage . . .
And God gave me Danger to overcome.

I asked for Love . . .
And God gave me Troubled people to help.

I asked for Favors . . .
And God gave me Opportunities.

I received nothing I wanted . . .
I received everything I needed!

May your path be bright and full of light everywhere you go.
And, I pray your feet will never stumble out of God’s plan.

May the desires of your heart come true, And may you experience Peace in
everything you do.

May Goodness, Kindness, and Mercy come your way And, may you gain Wisdom
and grow in the Lord every day.

i wanted to let everyone know AF has arrived. this means i can call the nurse on monday and get started on the clomid!

hopefully in a few days i’ll be able to come back and tell everyone what’s up, but for now i’m having majorly horrible cramps and i feel awful emotionally, physically and mentally. please keep me in your prayers.

love you all!

God bless,

good morning all! jerry stayed up WAY too late election night and i TOLD him he was going to hate himself in the morning, but of course he wouldn’t listen. so he felt so awful yesterday he called in to work! blah on him. of course i can’t sleep when he’s not in the room, so i tossed and turned all night long until he came to bed, and didn’t get up until 9:50! he got up at about 10:30! so he stole the computer from me once he was up so he could work on my website - not this one, FaithfulFamily.net - if you hadn’t noticed, it really really really really needs a facelift. it’s looked exactly the same since february!!!!!!!!! besides the look of it, he is writing ALL NEW CODING for it, so it can be 100% made by us, and no one else! we are happy about it…i’m just a bit impatient about getting it up! lol.

anyway that’s my excuse for not being on yesterday.

TTT

Do you believe Guns should be controlled by our government? If not, why? If so, how much control should the govt. have over guns? Should guns be illegal?
i know this is very touchy on both sides of the fence, but this is what i believe: i believe there should be some control by the govt. where guns are concerned. i KNOW it’s people who kill, not guns that kill, but people kill while taking drugs and drinking alcohol - it doesn’t mean these things aren’t dangerous. it is a travesty to hear of some child shooting himself because his daddy didn’t lock up his gun.
i believe guns should be legal but there should be gun locks that are CHILD PROOF and there should be penalties to parents who leave their guns out where children can get them. do NORMAL parents leave sharp knives lying on the kitchen floor so their baby can pick it up? NO! then why should a normal parent leave a gun in a plain sight and easy to access place for a six year old?!
i think it’s one of those common sense things. if parents would have more common sense, there would be no need for a law concerning guns. but hey, that’s the world right.

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well i’m going to visit people - oh wait, i have a poem. it’s a cute one

MaryJane’s Thanksgiving
Author Unknown

I’m thankful for a lot of things;
I’m thankful I’m alive.
I’m thankful that I’m six years olf,
Instead of only five.

I’m thankful for my dolls and toys,
And for my kitty gray;
I’m thankful for the big outdoos
Where I can run and play.

I’m thankful for the things that grow
The apples, aren’t they good?
The corn where we played hide and seek,
As in a little wood.

I’m thankful for the pumpkins round,
Just like a golden ball,
And jack-o-lanterns big and strange
They don’t scare me at all.

I’m thankful for Thanksgiving Day,
For pies all in a row…
I’m thankful Grandma made them sweet,
She knows I like them so.

I’m thankful for the turkey, too,
How brown it is and nice!
And I’d be very thankful, please!
For only one more slice.

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i had a bump - i tried to change the batteries in my keyboard and when i did, the keyboard stopped working! lol. i finally found the reset button and now it’s up again LOL.

so i’m off to do my daily reads

God bless!